On the tenth day of May, the darkest day since the Jianwen Dynasty, Zhu Yunwen was alone in the study and no one summoned him. Fang Xiaoru and other ministers knelt outside the door until the lamp was held, and the emperor summoned Fang Xiaoru alone.

Zhu Yunwen cried bitterly in front of his master: "Master, am I a traitorous emperor?"

Fang Xiaoru said firmly: "Your Majesty is one of the few virtuous emperors from ancient times to the present."

Zhu Yunwen choked and said, "Then why did God treat me like this? Last night, I felt very uncomfortable when I looked at the fire at Chengtian Gate. Could it be that I am an unethical emperor? God wants to punish me! I want to issue an edict to blame myself."

Fang Xiaoru also cried and knelt down on the ground, kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the Lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers. This is the incompetence of our ministers, which leads to such a situation. Your Majesty is the minister's begging for crimes, so how can you let Your Majesty punish him?

If Your Majesty did this, wouldn’t everyone in the world betrayed Yan Ni?”

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand and asked Fang Xiaoru to get up and said, "Master, what do you think you should do now?"

Fang Xiaoru sighed and said, "Your Majesty, I think that perhaps some of Lord Huang's practices are too powerful and do not take the overall situation into consideration.

If Geng Houxin was defeated, what if he was not replaced, Geng Hou was still able to surround Beiping into an iron barrel. But he strongly advocated changing the commander. Now, Li Jinglong is indeed a son, and he has no father's style, and has repeatedly lost his troops and humiliated the court.

Also, when dealing with the King of Liao, Lord Huang only saw that the King of Liao had ambitions, but did not know how to take advantage of the conflict between King of Liao and Yan Ni. He always wanted to restrain King of Liao, so he offended the King of Liao. Now the King of Liao has come back and bargained with the court.

If I had trusted the Liao King so much, why would it be today?

Alas, I also have selfish intentions. Looking at Huang and Qi, the two of you are trusted by Your Majesty. Sometimes, in order to follow Your Majesty’s wishes, I have no stopping, so that today’s situation is incompetent. Please punish Your Majesty!” Fang Xiaoru wanted to kneel down again.

Zhu Yunwen quickly stopped Fang Xiaoru. None of these things were agreed upon by him. Now Fang Xiaoru was criticized one by one. Although Zhu Yunwen felt uncomfortable, looking back, Fang Xiaoru did make some sense.

Zhu Yunwen sighed and said, "Master. It's useless to say these things. Now that things have come to this, what should we do?"

Fang Xiaoru pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, you are anxious about all two places. The first is to decide the candidate for the front-line commander, and the second is to agree to the food and wages requested by the King of Liao and urge the King of Liao to send troops to Peiping.

The head coach must choose a capable and experienced person, and the Liao King must also send a powerful minister to serve as an envoy again. "

Zhu Yunwen nodded and said, "Master is right. But who else can be used in the court?"

Fang Xiaoru and Taoism: "As old ministers saw, only the Duke of Wei can now be competent. Although Duke Wei and Yan Ni have a marriage relationship, Duke Wei is a famous loyal and filial person. If he did not avoid suspicion and appointed Duke Wei as the commander at this time.

Xu Huizu will definitely be grateful to Your Majesty for his favor and strive to rebel. The deputy general can choose Guo Ying. He and the King of Liao are father-in-law and son-in-law. The King of Liao will step up to go south because of this kindness."

Fang Xiaoru's suggestion is good. But Zhu Yunwen frowned and did not agree or object. Fang Xiaoru knew the character of his student and did not speak and stood by his side waiting for his decision.

After a while, Zhu Yunwen said, "The candidate for the head coach is very important, and we have to make a long-term plan. As for what Uncle Fifteenth is asking, I will be sure. 1.5 million taels of food and wages a year, Uncle Fifteenth should have performed well.

As for the candidates for escort, the master may have suggestions.”

Fang Xiaoru and Taoism: "Yang Jing or Lian Zining, these two people have a deep friendship with the King of Liao. Among them, I am more interested in Lord Yang Jing and Lord Yang. Lian Zining still lacks some weight. If Lord Yang is asked to go, I must be able to urge the King of Liao to come up with some achievements."

Li Jinglong's disastrous defeat and the fire in the palace soon spread in Yingtian. There was already a rumor among the people that the emperor had lost his morality and tampered with the ancestral system. These are all the punishments God has made to the present emperor.

This time, Huang Zicheng never dared to protect Li Jinglong again. He climbed before Zhu Yunwen's imperial guards. He beat his chest and stamped his feet and angrily scolded Li Jinglong for causing trouble: "Recommending Jinglong to cause trouble, and I will never die to atone for my sins."

At the end of May, Li Jinglong was sent back to the capital by a prison carriage and was summoned to the Ministry of Justice for his crimes. Lian Zining took several crimes and asked to be punished.

Emperor Jianwen was hesitant and finally gave up his death penalty because he had a world certificate. Lian Zi Ning kowtowed angrily and shouted, "Those who ruined Your Majesty's affairs are the thief. I am preparing to enforce the law and cannot eliminate the traitors of the court, and there will be more than death.

When Your Majesty pardons Jinglong, there will be no mercy ministers!" He cried and begged for death. Yang Jing and others persuaded him to refuse, and the emperor stopped the court.

Two days after Yue, Emperor Jianwen summoned Yang Jing into the palace and appointed an imperial envoy to Liao. Yang Jing was ordered to go to the treasury with Yang Rong, the chief of the Liao Palace, to order a million taels of silver and prepare to take it to Liaodong.

On the same day, the Jinyiwei was sent to the Ministry of Justice with Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai. Liu Sanwu, an old minister of the two dynasties, completed his 73-year-old life journey and died in the mansion on the day when Huang and Qi were imprisoned.

People with political keenness can smell a strong smell, and the capital is about to change.

...

There is a small town on the north bank of the estuary of the Yangtze River, called Lu Sichang, which is a town developed from Huainan Salt Field.

Because it occupies the estuary of the Yangtze River and has an important geographical location, many private salt dealers have settled here. After a while, a small village composed of a stove has become a somewhat prosperous town.

One day in May, an inconspicuous foreigner walked into the town with a wheelbarrow. He was seen as a farmer in his thirties, with a pale face and thin skin and dusty face.

On one side of the wheelbarrow is a big bag and on the other side is a cage of pigeons, which looks like a dozen.

When people from other places entered the town, they asked about it when they met everyone, but they didn't seem to have found out. They came to a teahouse in the town and ordered a pot of tea, ordered two steamed buns, and a plate of pickles to eat.

A foreigner asked the young man: "Brother, what kind of village is it going east?"

The young man said, "Walking eastward, it will be the end of the earth, there are vast oceans and no villages or towns."

The foreigner said with a frown: "Oh, what should I do? My miserable sister, I can't find you."

Seeing him say this, the young man asked curiously: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

The foreigner said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, I am a person with a miserable life. I was originally from Dangtu, Taiping Prefecture. Last year, my family was burned to death. I happened to work outside and survived. When I returned to the countryside, I had nothing left.

So I thought that a sister married a foreign land ten years ago. She heard that she was in a place on the Yangtze River in Yangzhou Prefecture. So I cleaned up and wanted to find the only relative in the world.

I walked along the river and walked for more than a year. I searched all the villages and towns along the Yangtze River in Yangzhou Prefecture, but I didn’t find a girl. I got here today. I asked some villagers here but I had never heard of it.

I originally wanted to take a break and walk along the river, but when my little brother said this, who knew that he had reached the end of the Yangtze River? What should I do?" As he said that, the farmer started to cry.

The young man felt miserable when he heard his life experience, so he had to say, "Maybe your sister's family has moved away?"

A foreigner said, "What should I do?"

The young man said, "What do you call this brother?"

A foreigner said, "My name is Chen Erchun, I don't know what the little brother is called?"

The young man smiled and said, "I am also an orphan. I have been adopted by the shopkeeper since I was a child. I have no surname but only called Xiao Shitou." The shopkeeper inside listened to the chatting of the two outsiders, came out of the inner room, and asked about the life experience of the outsider.

I thought he was quite honest and sympathized with him. The shopkeeper named Wang Wujin and asked Chen Erchun: "But I don't know what the Erchun brothers have to do?"

Chen Erchun said: "Where are you asked me to hide in this world?"

Wang Wujin said: "But I don't know what the Erchun brothers rely on to make a living?"

Chen Erchun said: "I used to be a bricklayer. I would raise some pigeons and send them to the restaurant to help make up for my household use."

Wang Wujin said: "Brother Erchun should live in our Lu Sichang. This place has gradually become prosperous in the past two years, and many people have built houses. Your craft can also be useful."

Chen Erchun's eyes showed a look of expectation and said, "This, can this work?"

Wang Wujin knew that he was worried about Jializhi and said, "Okay, the local officials here are already very careless. Lizhi is my brother. I don't think you look like a bad person, so I will talk to him. It should be no problem."

Chen Erchun quickly knelt down: "Brother Wang, thank you for your great kindness."

Chen Erchun built two thatched houses near the embankment south of the town and lived in it.

The masonry in his land is very good, and he has some work to do for the long-term workers. In addition, he built a cage next to the thatched house to raise pigeons, and sometimes sent the pigeons to the town restaurant to sell them for the family.

Chen Erchun often thought about the benefits of Wang Wujin's master and servant, and often caught two pigeons to serve them. The people in the town did not see him, the honest foreigner, and took good care of him.

After a month, a news came from the town. The imperial envoy from the court took a large ship to Liaodong. The people helped the elderly and young people to watch the embankment, and Xiao Shitou and Chen Erchun also joined in the fun.

I saw the vast estuary of the Yangtze River, and the sky was high. Several large ships sailed from the Yangtze River.

On the endless sea, there were also some ships. The ships on both sides were waving, and the large ships sailing out of the Yangtze River gradually stopped. Then, a few cannons, three medium ships sailed out of the fleet and headed towards more than a dozen large ships on the sea.

As we were about to approach the ground, smoke rose from the side of the fleet outside the sea, and then a rumbling thunder came.

Chen Erchun clearly saw the flags flying on the masts of ships offshore, with blue sea water and orange-red dragons. This was the Liaodong Navy military flag that was shaking the East China Sea. At this time, a group of pigeons flew past the embankment.

"On June 28, the second year of Jianwen, the imperial envoy Yang Jing and the chief secretary Yang Rong, the supervisor of the salary ship to return to Liao, and the Liaodong navy protected him."

Yang Jing's envoy, Huang, Qi was imprisoned, and Liu Sanwu left the west. The power of the imperial cabinet immediately appeared. The emperor was transferred to Fang Xiaoru's Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary, becoming the chief minister of the cabinet.

Fang Xiaoru, who seemed loyal and pedantic, used tricks at critical moments to easily eliminate several important officials in front of him and entered the center of power of the empire, above ten thousand people.
Chapter completed!